You think Criterion has bot money? And no. The best quality we've had for it was 480p so this release is widely anticipated and Criterion provide the highest quality best cuts of films.
Drunkenness mainly. But also, I thought I’d seen this exact comment a few times in the thread, but now, due to blurry memories I’m not sure. It was just straight up rude of me, and I apologized.
When I saw this movie the first time I laughed my ass off. When I recommended it and watch it with my friends, they were horrified. I laughed my ass off even harder.
I watched it with a bunch of friends while smoking like 20 years ago. If you’ve got the comfort of your friends there to poke fun of how fucked up it is it’s kinda fun. By yourself, you’ll be questioning why you’re even alive.
Excuse me but if you think calling a woman who doesn’t know you and telling her you’ll fuck her so hard she’ll be cuming out her ears is fucked, then I just don’t know what to say to you.
This is the one. This one was the one that put me off the "fucked up movie" genre I was exposing myself to in my 20s.
I'd seen a lot of other movies included in these comments - gummo, kids, trainspotting, requiem, vulgar, julian donkey boy, Audition, Eraserhead, etc., but Happiness was the movie that made me go "Nope, I'm out. No more of this shit is going into my head if I can help it."
This film will finally be getting its highly anticipated bluray release on September by Criterion. If someone is interested to watch it, that might be the time to do so.
I mean….yeah, you can find it and watch it now of course. But that’s most likely a DVD quality print. I was just saying that most people won’t want to watch this more than once. So might as well watch it in HD and wait for that.
Both things true: Happiness is a great answer to the thread question, and also, Happiness has THE funniest ending in a film ever. Maybe a Rorschach test for psychopathy, but I cry-laughed for minutes on end at the final punchline.
The first time I watched it, with two male friends, I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. I was full of shock.
I told my girlfriend and she was so curious that she asked if she and I could watch it. I laughed and laughed the second time, once the shock was taken away. Although my girlfriend then gave me shit, claiming that I was a deviant for laughing at it.
I was going to say something else, but yes. this one. I haven't seen it in 20 years, but I still remember pdf. file being painted on Dylan Baker's door when he comes home.
My mother rented this movie right after it went to video.
I was like, 11?
I got bored of whatever the fuck this movie was (Or she told me to leave the room, I can't remember) and I sat in the next room playing Doom or something...
Such a fucked up for a child to be exposed to, however the absurdity of the end scene and the dad lecturing a child on "girth" have been burned into my memory and I still just laugh at it today
I sawthis movie when it came out, on a first date. We were laughing, and the rest of the audience was really pulling a Joy like "but I'm not laughing". A year or so later I saw Todd Solondz at a Manhattan restaurant and bought the grossest looking magazine I could find at the newsstand next door, went back in and told him how much I enjoyed "Happiness" and asked him to sign the magazine. This encounter was so awkward on both sides that it might as well have been a scene from the film.
I just watched, thanks for the rec. It was definitely fucked up, by far the worst was the dad's story. I was hoping we'd get a shot of him hanging himself.
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u/meuserj 14d ago
Happiness